miss JEAN JOLLY O.B.E. Matron.COMPLETED

[duskyree]

hi, I'm looking for info about   Miss Jean Jolly O.B.E. She was the Matron of the southern general hospital. and stobhill hospital in glasgow. I cannot find any records of her Birth or Death to verify if she is related to my line of JOLLYS.
I have a photograph of her, performing the "naming ceremony" of two new air ambulances in 1955. Please can anyone help.

many thanks
duskyree.
                            thanks everyone for your help,    COMPLETED

[gaucho]

Hi,
there are several potential Jean or Jeannie Jolly's on the Scotlands people website. Deaths are too recent to view, so you would either have to order the certificate or go a records office to view it. There is one likely death, given that she would likely be over 40 in 1955 and was unmarried.
best wishes,
John

[duskyree]

hi gaucho, thanks for your quick reply. i have all the possibles on scotlands people but nothing conclusive, i shall do as you say and send for the certificate for the "likely death". i'll let you know how i get on.
     thanks very much for your help,
         duskyree.

[Evie]

Googling her name did bring up a website for the rcn archives. It seems that your Jean was actually named Jean Donald Jolly. This may help to narrow things down quite a lot.

Evie

[duskyree]

thanks evie for your reply, it was very helpful. I've just had a look at the google web pages and i see they have the same photo that i have. i was interested to hear that her middle name was DONALD. I had previously had info from the southern general hospital saying that she always signed her name as miss jean D jolly, and i assumed that the D stood for DOUGLAS as the name douglas is used a lot as a middle name in my JOLLY line, passed down from a gg grandmother who's maiden name was "jane DOUGLAS annand".

thanks for your help,
          regards duskyree.

[MonicaL]

Hi Duskyree

When approx. do you think Jean was born? There is one birth entry showing on Scotlands People in 1896 for a Jane (common variant of Jean) Donald Jolly.

Monica

[hume]

Adding onto Monica's info, there's also a death for a Jane Donald Jolly in 1981, aged 84. It was registered in Forfar, Angus, and can be ordered through Scotlandspeople.

hume

[Evie]

I am amazed there isn't an obituary somewhere for Jean

[duskyree]

thankyou monica, I just found jane donald jollys birth & death in SP It's the wrong one but thanks for the lead anyway.  i have tried all the variants of jean without success i just hoped that someone might have had some knowledge of her.
it looks as if we might not be related afterall.

thanks foryour help
                 regards duskyree.